On Sunday Huck came running into the room saying “I have something very important to show you”. We followed him to the window. And indeed, something very important was there for us to see. A huge woodpecker was outside going to town on chunk of wood. He cut into it as if it were butter. After digging in he’d pull his beak from the wood and spit out shards. His beak seemed enormous and sharp His body preposterously gigantic for a woodpecker. We were transfixed. Stephanie gathered Huck in her arms to go see the bird outside. By the time I went to join them it was gone. No one even thought to get a camera. Later we looked at the drawings in the field guide and identified it as the Pileated Woodpecker.